is diarrhea the correct term, not dysentery? Is there a difference?

The word dysentery to describe the common honey bee disorder is old, at least back to 1830:

Diseases of Bees. — The chief diseases of bees, generally arising from damps, cold, or poverty, and occasionally from the excessive heat of the sun, when shelter is necessary for the hive — are dysentery or looseness, torpor, falling in flight from vertigo or giddiness, and vermin. Care and good feeding seem to be the only remedies on which much dependance can be placed. Good old red-port mixed with honey, and toast soaked in old beer, are the chief specifics in repute.

Baxter, J., & Ellman, J. (1830). The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge

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